Late Helladic to Middle Geometric Aegean and Contemporary Cypriot Chronologies: A Radiocarbon View from the Levant

The article proposes a radiocarbon-based dating scheme for the entire Aegean ceramic sequence, from the Late Helladic IIIB2 to the Middle Geometric II, with implications for the Late Cypriot IIC to Cypro-Geometric III ceramic phases. It accomplishes this by exercising "chronology by proxy"...

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Published in:Bulletin of ASOR
Authors: Fantalkin, Alexander (Author) ; Finḳelshṭayn, Yiśraʾel 1949- (Author) ; Piasetzky, Eli (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The University of Chicago Press 2015
In: Bulletin of ASOR
RelBib Classification:HB Old Testament
HH Archaeology
KBK Europe (East)
KBL Near East and North Africa
TB Antiquity
Further subjects:B Late Helladic III
B Cyprus
B Iron Age
B Aegean
B Cypro-Geometric
B Sub-Mycenaean
B Aegean Sea
B Geometric
B Late Bronze and Iron Age chronology
B Middle East
B Late Cypriot
B Radiocarbon dating
B Levant
B Proto-Geometric
B Bronze Age
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Summary:The article proposes a radiocarbon-based dating scheme for the entire Aegean ceramic sequence, from the Late Helladic IIIB2 to the Middle Geometric II, with implications for the Late Cypriot IIC to Cypro-Geometric III ceramic phases. It accomplishes this by exercising "chronology by proxy"--that is, turning to radiocarbon-dated strata in the Levant that produced Aegean, Aegean-related, and corresponding Cypriot pottery items that represent most of the Late Helladic IIIB-Middle Geometric sequence. The article describes these contexts in the Levant and the above-mentioned items found in them, and then reports the results of a radiocarbon Bayesian model for their dating. The dates presented here support, with a few adjustments, the Conventional Aegean Chronology (Low Chronology in Levantine terms), in line with a recent radiocarbon dating of the Sub-Mycenaean/Early Proto-Geometric transition according to samples from Greece, as well as other models for the Iron Age in the Levant.
ISSN:2161-8062
Contains:Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.373.0025